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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1954)
Puge 10-SECTION II , THE capital, juuknal, saiem, Oregon Monday, June 21, 1954 Some Witnesses in Red Hearings May Be Cited ?um PORTLAND (UP) Rep. Harold1 Velde (R-lll.) and hi subcommit tee on un-American activities left Portland (or Washington. D.C. Sun day afternoon alter completing two days of hearings into Oregon Com munist activities here Saturday. Velde, head of the full committee and director of the Portland hear ings, said action on the commit tees findings will bo taken later. He indicated that contempt pro ceedings appear likely against three or (our of the witnesses questioned. The proceedings would have to be Instituted by the lull Conflict in Testimony In Red Hearing Noted SEATTLE (fl Conflicts In testi mony given by Barbara Hartle end former labor leader Karly Larsen at last week's House Un American Activities Committee hearing here probably will be re ferred to the U. S. attorney gen era! for action. Acting Chairman Jackson 'R. Calif.) wound up the committee's weeklong investigation of Com munist Party activities here with this prediction late Saturday and Uhn forecasl (he F.uast Rid hunt ers will return here for another session. ;' ' Testimony before the committee leads to an "inescapable conclu sion" of the "existence of a wide spread Communist . infiltration in to almost every activity in this area," Jackson declared. It Is "quite apparent the com mittee, may have to come back after tho first of the year," he sid. Conflicts in testimony between Mrs. Hartle, star witness at the weeklong Inquiry, and Larsen, co defendant with Mrs. Hartle and five others at the last year's Smith Act trial here, developed during Saturday's overtime ses sion. Mrs. Hartle, who renounced Com munism aftr sh was convicted of conspiring to advocate violent overtoro at the government, listed Larsen. former official of the CIO International Woodwork ers Union, among some 300 per sons sne said were active in the Communist Party in the North wel. She said she met Larsen on the Party's underground business in 1950, and also tola the committee Larsen was elected unrlpr cn as- suintu noma to the party's district committee at a secret party con vention the same year. Larsen, only defendant acquitted at the conspiracy trial last sum mer, denied the testimony under oath. Appearing with his attorney, John F. Walthew, Larsen admitted he once was a Communist but said he left the party in 1946. Larsen said, however, it was possible his name was carried on party membership roles after 1946 without his knowledge. Asked about Mrs. Hartle' testi mony they had discussed party matters in an automobile in 1950, Larsen said: "I have no recollection of ever meeting Barbara Hartle in my car, or anywhere, in 1950." committee and decided by congress. Other results of the hearings. Velde said, may be to provide the basis (or investigation by the FBI of the 14 witnesses who refused to answer questions on constitu tional grounds. Saturday's closing session fea tured 11 out of the 12 witnesses called refusing to answer commit tee questions on the grounds that they might tend to be self-incriminating. Most vciicuiuJ. of ibe ulent wit nesses was Don Wollam, Portland, who shouted that he did not intend to join what he called the sub committee's "stable of stool pi geons" and had to be gaveled into silence when he tried to launch a tirade against the investigation. Committee Counsel Robert L. Kunzig asked Wollam if he had ever been engaged in espionage, the only witness to whom the ques tion was put. Wollam refused to answer, citing tho constitutional and legal basis for his refusal. Wr.Matrt u-,1.0 tl.u mU fen-UK. when he was asked if it were not true that at that very minute he was a section organizer for Dis trict 11 of the Oregon's Commu nist Party. Other hostile witnesses appear ing Saturday afternoon were Prof. Lloyd Reynolds, professor of graphic arts at Reed college in Portland: Leonard Marsak, in structor of history and humanities at Reed; Spencer J. Gill, Portland freelance writer; Sam Markson, a Portland painter; David Lapham, social worker for the Multnomah County public welfare commission uonnelly David uregg, unem ployed railroad laborer, and Wil liam E. Lewis, office worker for a trucking firm. AU the above witness invoked the fifth amendment in refusing to answer questions, and all had been identified by friendly witnesses as having had connections with the Communist party in Portland in the past. Lapham departed (rom the usual line of answers to say no" when asked if he was now a member of the John Reed Club of the Communist party. He con tinued his negative answers to questions dating back to Jan. 1, 1950, but when asked if he was a member of the club on Dec. 31, 1949, he refused to answer.. ?.ooort Canon, - lormer dean of students and director of admis sions at Reed, told the subcommit tee that he had given the FBI the same information he gave the Velde group. He said he left the party in 1948. He said he believed the John Reed club a tthe Port land campus had ceased to oper ate. During the course of the hear ings, only three of the 17 witnesses appearing cooperated with the sub committee. Velde indicated that what testimony was prejenied to the subcommittee was enough to outline the nature and extent of Communist activity in the state. 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Among the representatives whom the study showed with no "right votes were the Oregon Re publicans, Coon and tuswortn, A summary of other Pacific Northwest members of Congress showed (with the "right" total be ing the first figure given: .".sati'if-- Dworjtriak H-Ids V2J: Cordon R-Ore 3-33: Hone Ind-Ore 29-3, and Uatnuson D-Waih SS-1. Representative!- Budce R-Ida 1-1,: Pfoat D-Ida 10-1: AnieU R-Ore l-. Norblad R-Ore e-33; Holmei R-Waih 10-80; Horan R-Waih 3-37: Mack R-Waib 1-31; Mainmort D Waah 10-1; Pellr H-Wah 3-7; Tollelion R-Waih 30-9 and Weatland -R-Waah 1-10. Rival Natural Gas Firm To Appeal FPC Ruling PRES. BEN-ZV1 ILL JERUSALEM m President fzhak Ben - Zvi of Israel under went an operation at the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem Mon day. ' vivrvuivrn B r. Uh West coast Transmission Co. announced Monday it will appeal a decision of the U. 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